An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.

Photo from Time Team, shared by Forestry England In a forest of the United Kingdom sits an ancient standing stone. For years, many believed the green-gray slab was just an “isolated monument ...

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara ...